Famous Athenian Tetradrachm

Athenian owl tetradrachm, which remains the most recognizable ancient coin today. This coin was the largest silver coin of its time, and it popularized the use of a coin’s obverse as the “head” and the reverse as the animal’s “tail”. Thank you Coin Week, one of the preeminent coin magazines and numismatic websites, full of interesting articles about historic and ancient coins.